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Personcheethama
30/5/2019 at 8:21pm
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Anyone had experience of making one or using one? I want ideas please, deep hole or container.
Thanks
Anne

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PersonLlaniDavis
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I've used them, have a friend that has one on his boat and have a friend that runs a company that builds them.

If you have one with a hole how are you going to get the compost out?

The boat owner uses a couple of containers so that they can let the contents "compost" for longer before disposal.

I've used a raised one that did a "drop" into a open area behind and below so that it could be dug out easily.

None have had any "nasty" smell or been difficult to use.


PersonJoannaLesley
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I'm sure that we used a caravan club site a number of years ago which had a composting toilet. Wareham?? I don't know whether it still does, but that was a long drop type. Excellent idea for more remote locations.

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PersonVectratot
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Yes Crossways CC site have them, I have used them on three previous stays at the site and are about to go there for 21 Nights next month. I do not have any problems using them, just be sure to leave any valuables in the caravan eg watch, car keys for obvious reasons

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PersonMick S.
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Either the hole is very deep, or the loo seat is ten foot in the air. Which is it?


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31/5/2019 at 10:07pm
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Visit the place (or go to the website for) called the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth in Wales. They do courses on compost toilets, have books about them, have various ones for visitors to use.

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Personcheethama
01/6/2019 at 9:39pm
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Thanks for replies.    Composting toilets do not need emptying, the ground absorbs and re cycles. This is what I need to know more about.


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PersonLlaniDavis
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Quote: Originally posted by cheethama on 01/6/2019
Thanks for replies.    Composting toilets do not need emptying, the ground absorbs and re cycles. This is what I need to know more about.



Those are not the sort of composting toilets I have used or my friend makes.

All the ones I have used you "do your business" into a container of some kind, and generally cover the "output" with a handful of soil or straw. That pile gradually builds up and depending on type is either dig out or the container is emptied onto a compost pile to further decay. The latter is especially true of the composting toilets fitted to boats.

I'm not even sure that the type you are proposing would be legal.

I suggest you look at this site and perhaps talk to the owner:


https://natsol.co.uk/


Personsuperbbird
02/6/2019 at 10:27am
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I thought 'old fashioned privies' filled up as the composting time was slower than the rate the average human fills them. So they need to be dug out or a new hole dug and the 'privy shed' moved.

During a B&B weekend I borrowed 'Herefordshire Privies by Paddy Ariss' (I kid you not!) from the breakfast room. Very interesting


PersonDeborahTurner
04/6/2019 at 5:36pm
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I have used loads on different campsites and only one was grim. That one was on a raised platform and the compost area was encased in a wall of straw sandwiched together with chicken wire. The straw had all slipped down and rats could run in and out of the compost area - and they did.

Usually the toilet shed is up two or three steps, and I think there is either a 'long drop' hole in the ground, that presumably then gets filled in, or there is some sort of container.

The ones I really don't like are the ones that seek to separate wee and everything else, there is a sort of basket affair at the front of the toilet bowl.

Like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=compost+toilet+with+separate+urine&rlz=1C1GCEA_en&........

I won't go into detail but aim is clearly an issue.

The best ones have quite fine sawdust to throw down, not big shavings.


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04/6/2019 at 10:34pm
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The one at Inverie campsite is by this company. Lot of info on their site.

https://natsol.co.uk/


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I stayed at the Loch Ossian Scottish youth hostel 10 or more years ago and it was the hole in the ground type compost toilet.
I expected it to be smelly but quite the opposite, more so than some public toilets I have used.

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PersonLlaniDavis
08/6/2019 at 11:45pm
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Quote: Originally posted by spiritburner on 04/6/2019
The one at Inverie campsite is by this company. Lot of info on their site.

https://natsol.co.uk/


That's my friends company.



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